I am special

I do not want the mask you wear for everyone else I do not want the one you reached for automatically I do not want the mask that is comfortable

I want you to make a new mask just for me I want you to feel your heart Thumping in your chest like a drum remembering like a drum

Beating Opening I want to taste the blood in your mouth your stomach turning

I am special wear a new mask just for me and I will give you everything I don’t want you to play it safe with me

I have played it safe for as far as I can remember and in that agony

all I found is empty lack

in that barren land I felt death with my own eyes I saw emptiness in my exasperated sighs I heard the quiet call of soul

reaching, begging on its knees on my knees I begged to live to scream choking on my own skeletons

for the heroine I still can taste the life I would die to live

everything turning here turning, opening opening, igniting burning everything leaving smoke in its reckless wake

I will not play it safe with you I will not let you play it safe with me

life is too short, and death too quick

I am special wear a new mask just for me the mask you tremble to wear the mask you fall asleep fighting

wear a new mask for me

and I will give you everything

— Utsav